Button painting tutorial

etsy

2/07/2012

Maureen's bluebird, tutorials and an online class.

I hardly published my post yesterday where I was whinging about doing tutorials and within an hour I received an email from Maureen Greeson that she had used my "birds on felt" tutorial to make a bluebird for her February CQJP ....and a precious one it is.

She chose an excellent pattern for this beautiful bird and shared it with us on her blog... I am going to try this one myself... You must go see it on the block and save the pattern she so generously shared... She also mentioned a problem cutting it out so I will go back and review the tutorial and see if I can solve that problem... The last post I did on this subject could have definitely had bigger and better pictures. Every time I review a tutorial I find things I could have explained better and they can always be improved with revisions so I always appreciate your input.

Maureen has asked me to teach an online class and I readily accepted. Doing tutorials is excellent practice for just such an endeavor. Cathy L. also commented yesterday that I should have explained how to divide an

an image for doing a cut away transfer and she is absolutely right. So when I redo that tutorial with Kerry's goldwork block "how to section the image" will be my top priority... AND I will run it past Cathy for her input and approval.

I'm in the final stages of Janet's block and my mind is already rushing ahead to Kerry's. I would love to use some of the miles of various shades of gold tulle in my stash. AND I want to keep focused on the "marriage" of goldwork and CQ.... You are going to LOVE what I have in mind for Kerry... Not much stitching time today..but I can spend some time thinking about an online class while in the car. It's a Gerry "good-wife" day...